Tailor&#39;s measuring instrument.



C. E. REED.

TA'ILORS MEASURING INSTRUMENT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1915. RENEWED MAY 31,1916.

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CHARLES E. REED, OF WARRENSBUERG, MISSOURI.

TAILOR/S MEASURING INSTRUMENT.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, CHARLES E. REED, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVarrensburg, in the county of Johnson and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tailors Measuring Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved tailors measuring instrument, which I call shoulder points and which correctly ascertains and properly names the natural standing position or carriage of the head and shoulders of persons measured for garments, the object of the invention being to provide an improved implement of this kind, which is cheap and simple, which may be readily and quickly used, and which accurately indicates the natural standing position or carriage of the person, as to the head, shoulders, chest, neck and back.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan of a measuring or indicating instrument constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

In accordance with my invention, I provide a board 1 which is shaped to present sides or edges 2, 3, Land 5 which respectively are shaped and proportioned to fit against the shoulder, back of head, back, or chest. The head edge 3 is provided at its lower end with a scale 6 used in ascertaining the length of neck of the person measured.

In the center of the board is a balanced indicating hand 7 which has a point8 at one end and a counterbalancing weight 9 at the other end and which has a pivotal shaft 10, one end of which is in a bearing in the bot tom of a circular opening 11 in the board, the other end of said pivotal shaft being mounted in a bearing in a cross bar 12 which extends across the center of said opening and which is secured on a dial plate 13, said dial plate being concentric with the opening and secured on the board by screws 14.

The dial plate is provided at its inner side with a shoulder scale 2 which is inscribed shoulder, a head scale 3 which is inscribed head; a back scale P which is in- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 18, 1915, Serial No. 34,891.

Patented Feb. 6, 1W1 "3. Renewed May 31, 1916. Serial No. 100,966.

scribed back and a chest scale 5 which is inscribed chest. The subdivisions of the shoulder scale respectively indicate high, square, regular, sloping and very sloping. The subdivisions of' the head scale respectively indicate forward, stooping, regular, erect, and very erect; the subdivisions of the back scale respectively indicate very round, round, stooping, regular, erect, and very erect. The subdivisions of the chest scale indicate corpulent full, corpulent nornfialfifcorpulent flat, full, regular and The indicating hand is centrally pivoted with respect to the dial surface in common with all the scales thereof. In using the device 1 all its edges will be appropriately applied to the shoulders, back of head, back, and chest, as the case may be, of the person being measured; the resulting position of the device, it being held in a vertical plane, will cause the indicating hand in co-action with the corresponding scale, to indicate the characteristic position, shape, or slope of said member.

Inscribed on the board 1 concentrically of the head scale 3 is a scale 3* graduated to a quarter of an inch and cooperating with the point 8 on the hand 7 to indicate the angular position of the head, while in scribed on the board 4 concentrically of the shoulder scale 2* is a scale 2 graduated to fractions of an inch and cooperating with the point 8 of the hand 7 to indicate, in fractions of an inch, the relative heights of the shoulders.

Having thus described my invention, I claim An instrument of the class described comprising a board having edges respectively shaped and proportioned to conform with and to fit against the shoulders, back of head,

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

